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Zeph
April 4th, 2008, 08:27 PM
My Marksmanship Club today held an open range day for a fund raiser. Our feature gun was a 9mm full auto Mac-11. Our other big guns were a .45 cal internally silenced AR-15 and a 9mm AR-15 with a 5" short barrel and optional silencer. We had two glock 9mm with one having a silencer on it, a luger (which broke unfortunately), two .45 cal handguns, two more 9mm pistols, two revolvers, and of course all of our .22 caliber handguns and rifles. We sold Mac-11 32-round magazines for ten dollars and everyone loved it. If you're going to have a fundraiser, that's the way to go. Other than that, ammo was 25 cents a shot for 9mm/.45, revolver ammo for 20 cents, and .22 ammo went at 25 rounds for a dollar.

It started at about 8:30am and went on until about 4:00pm. We ran out of 9mm at about 11:00 and went to go buy 3k more as we started selling our reserves that "dont exist". The fresh 9mm arrived about 12:30, but by then we has literally sold all our reserve. The .45 went more slowly, but we did have some time where all they could really buy was that, so it eventually ran out at about maybe 1:00. We ran out of the 3,000 9mm rounds we bought as extra at about 2:00. Yes, we sold 3k rounds in an hour and a half. In total, we're estimating we sold over 6,000 rounds and most likely close to 7,000. I dont know exactly how much we netted and grossed, but I know the net would at least be enough to cover my rent for 2 or 3 months.

I was selling ammo up till we ran out, so I didn't get a chance to go around taking many pictures, but I did get a few videos towards the end. Below are some short quick time videos I took off my camera. The last two are me shooting a magazine from the Mac-11 pre and post jam. BTW, I have a legacy in the club for being able to get any weapon I shoot to jam within the first couple of times.

http://zeph.h2vista.net/Guy%20shooting%209mm%20AR-15.MOV
http://zeph.h2vista.net/Shooting%20silenced%20glock.MOV
http://zeph.h2vista.net/Me%20shooting%20Mac-11%20before%20jam.MOV
http://zeph.h2vista.net/Me%20shooting%20Mac-11%20after%20jam.MOV

The Mac-11 had a lot of kick with the way it was set up. I cant remember exactly what the guy did, but the current setup was setup for a really fast rate of fire. In each of those bursts, I shot 5 or 6 rounds. Not to mention the collapsible stock. That thing was soo fucking uncomfortable. It was just a piece of metal pretty much. More pics and videos later perhaps.

Bad Waffle
April 4th, 2008, 08:50 PM
heh, cool beans.

Zeph
April 4th, 2008, 08:54 PM
Oh, forgot to mention this. Whenever you put a silencer on an AR-15, it spits some gas back at you after each shot. It's not very fun and often gritty. I recommend using sealed goggles when shooting it.

Sel
April 4th, 2008, 08:56 PM
Could you convert those to something my computer could read D:

l SINERGY l
April 4th, 2008, 09:13 PM
Could you convert those to something my computer could read D:

Install Quicktime :).

Sel
April 4th, 2008, 09:19 PM
Install Quicktime :).

I dunt wanna :gonk:

These better be good zephy >:o

SnaFuBAR
April 5th, 2008, 02:36 AM
good god does anyone there know how to handle recoil?? lol. cool deal anyways. wish i were there.

Emmzee
April 5th, 2008, 08:05 PM
good god does anyone there know how to handle recoil??
Reminds me of this:
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SnaFuBAR
April 5th, 2008, 08:13 PM
i remember that. that gun is bigger than she is. if you weigh 20 pounds you should be shooting 40 pound guns.

Zeph
April 5th, 2008, 10:21 PM
good god does anyone there know how to handle recoil?? lol. cool deal anyways. wish i were there.

Better question would be if anyone ever encountered recoil before. Probably 3/4ths of the people there hadn't ever shot anything before.

SnaFuBAR
April 5th, 2008, 11:06 PM
i'm sorry, but in my perfect world everyone knows guns lalalallalaaaaa don't burst my bubble ok lalalalalaaaa

but srsly i hadn't thought about that, haha.

Zeph
April 6th, 2008, 02:03 AM
Someone uploaded a gallery of photos from the day.

edit: Went through and picked out my favorites. The rest can be found from this link.

http://s116.photobucket.com/albums/o7/mhidpa/Open%20Range%20Day/


some of my favorites:

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o7/mhidpa/Open%20Range%20Day/OpenRangeDay259.jpg
The air conditioning broke at one point so incredible volume of gunfire produced enough smoke to where we could barely see at one point.

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o7/mhidpa/Open%20Range%20Day/OpenRangeDay261.jpg
He fired a ten round burst full auto in a group of about six inches.

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o7/mhidpa/Open%20Range%20Day/OpenRangeDay282.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o7/mhidpa/Open%20Range%20Day/OpenRangeDay289.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o7/mhidpa/Open%20Range%20Day/OpenRangeDay291.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o7/mhidpa/Open%20Range%20Day/OpenRangeDay292.jpg
We added close to 7k shells that day.

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o7/mhidpa/Open%20Range%20Day/OpenRangeDay293.jpg
I think this is the only group picture of people in the club taken on campus where a firearm was not inframe.

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o7/mhidpa/Open%20Range%20Day/OpenRangeDay071.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o7/mhidpa/Open%20Range%20Day/OpenRangeDay073.jpg
Channel 11 Newslady had some fun too.

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o7/mhidpa/Open%20Range%20Day/OpenRangeDay074.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o7/mhidpa/Open%20Range%20Day/OpenRangeDay079.jpg
This girl was hardcore.

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o7/mhidpa/Open%20Range%20Day/OpenRangeDay120.jpg
Shortest the line was all day up till we ran out of ammunition.

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o7/mhidpa/Open%20Range%20Day/OpenRangeDay128.jpg
Fearless leader.

rossmum
April 6th, 2008, 05:20 AM
Lucky bastards. I have to be content with bolt-actions.

That said, the SMLE makes me hot in my pants. :haw: